By JOSH GERSTEIN
Staff Reporter of the Sun
March 26, 2007
Senator Clinton took time out of a madcap fund-raising blitz through California to try to extinguish a blaze of criticism that erupted in the Asian community after Chinese-American journalists asserted that they were racially profiled at one of Mrs. Clinton's events in San Francisco.
Before embarking on a tour of Northern California yesterday aimed at picking up about $1 million for her presidential bid, Mrs. Clinton sat down at a San Francisco hotel with more than 40 reporters and photographers for newspapers, magazines, and television outlets that serve the Asian-American community.
The session seemed successful at mollifying the offended reporters, who claimed that a campaign aide told them they were not welcome at a fund-raiser last month because they were "foreign press."
"I was really upset," Portia Li of the Chinese language newspaper, World Journal, said. "Many Americans still look at Asians as foreigners. I've been in the country 25 years. I'm an American citizen. … I want Asian Americans to be treated as Americans."
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